The Salt Path (The Film)

I read the book and soon realised it was fanciful, they came over as scroungers. I wouldn't see the film for that reason.

Lathyrus3

I hope she’s been back and repaid the people that she stole from.

Yes - I take it you've read the Observer piece!

On BBC news she says the accusation is wrong and she’s taking legal advice. There’s also doubt cast on the claims about Moth’s illness.
Could be more exciting than the film or the book!

The point is, the walk along the south-west coastal path may have been true, but the book was based on the premise that this couple had been unjustly treated and that the husband was suffering a terminal illness which miraculously went into remission because of the healing properties of their walk.
There was admiration for their fortitude and sympathy for their plight.
That is the deception, and people do not like being conned.

No doubt there will be a drama-documentary some time in the future about Tim and Sally Walker and their machinations, like the one about the couple who faked the husband's death while he hid in the house.

I've not long finished one of the best books I've ever read. It is "Raising Hare" by Chloe Dalton and it was a bestseller towards the end of last year. A "buzz" book as somebody called it, but it was so moving and the author a brilliant writer.

After the revelations about the author of The Salt Path, I'll be devastated if, in years to come, it is revealed that Chloe Dalton didn't in fact raise a hare.

merlotgran

Robin202

Has anyone not seen what has subsequently been written about the Salt Path, that it was based on lies? Here’s the article from the Observer. observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit

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Going off to find a brick wall to bang my head against!

MayBee70

I wonder how Gigspanner and, to a lesser degree Angela Harding will react to this revelation?

Exactly what I thought. No one should feel bad about having been taken in - it's good to trust people - until you have a reason not to. And Raynor Wynn is obviously very convincing (although not much of a performer imho).

Paperbackwriter

Lathyrus3

I hope she’s been back and repaid the people that she stole from.

Yes - I take it you've read the Observer piece!

Of course.

My post you’ve quoted was made days and days ago.

I don’t want anyone thinking I’m one of those who don’t read what’s gone before.

I haven’t been making any recent comments at all.

And as far as I know she hasn’t repaid anybody anything -ever.

Lahlah65

MayBee70

I wonder how Gigspanner and, to a lesser degree Angela Harding will react to this revelation?

Exactly what I thought. No one should feel bad about having been taken in - it's good to trust people - until you have a reason not to. And Raynor Wynn is obviously very convincing (although not much of a performer imho).

She’s also narrated one of the audio books and but I find her voice irritating. Which is why I can’t listen to her collaboration with Gigspanner. I did feel bad about that but consoled myself with the fact that I don’t particularly like Simon Armitages speaking voice when he narrates his work and I do actually like him a lot. You have to have a very special kind of voice if you’re going to narrate something.

LucyAnna5

merlotgran

Robin202

Has anyone not seen what has subsequently been written about the Salt Path, that it was based on lies? Here’s the article from the Observer. observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit

😩😩😩

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Going off to find a brick wall to bang my head against!

Groundhog Day. I will start hearing "I've Got You Babe" soon.

In fairness, there have been some very interesting comments among the many repetitions.

Gigspanner are on tour with her at the moment; in fact they're playing at a local venue to me next week, and they're touring for weeks.

For those of us who haven’t read the books and now don’t want to see the film, who/what is Gigspanner please?

Taking audiences by storm, Saltlines is a prose and music collaboration between bestselling author Raynor Winn (The Salt Path) and The Gigspanner Big Band, which features some of the most celebrated names on the British folk scene – Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) Trio, John Spiers (Bellowhead), Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin (BBC Folk Awards Best Duo).

Together they have created a compelling, mesmerising odyssey which explores the landscape, social history and traditions of the South West Coast Path.

She's certainly very plausible!

MayBee70

Gigspanner are on tour with her at the moment; in fact they're playing at a local venue to me next week, and they're touring for weeks.

She has withdrawn from the tour apparently.

It’s a band merlotgran. It’s advertising July 2025 events Saltlines with Raynor Winn. It’s a tour (or it was )

Sorry, slow typing so overtaken by Lathyrus and Allira

PSPA, a charity which supports people with CBD and had worked with the Winns, has now ended its relationship with the family, according to the BBC.
The Guardian 21.00 7the July 2025.

I flicked through my copy of THE SP last night and you know the section “About The Author” that was very vague and said nothing about her past just that she was a keen walker etc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsMDDKvjmA

eazybee

The point is, the walk along the south-west coastal path may have been true, but the book was based on the premise that this couple had been unjustly treated and that the husband was suffering a terminal illness which miraculously went into remission because of the healing properties of their walk.
There was admiration for their fortitude and sympathy for their plight.
That is the deception, and people do not like being conned.

No doubt there will be a drama-documentary some time in the future about Tim and Sally Walker and their machinations, like the one about the couple who faked the husband's death while he hid in the house.

Yes, I have only just come onto the thread, and was going to mention the walk and how they presented themselves - lovely scenery!

I find some of the stronger criticism, indeed, totally "dissing" them, unnecessary. People do what they think is best, and we are bound to have widely different views: I prefer to take a glass half full approach and forgive all but the worst, ie outright lies, or where others are harmed.

And as I said, unless they did harm or lied, I do not mind someone "working the system, as long, again, as it does no harm to others. As someone wisely said to me, "Never be afraid of asking for what you want/need". (as others will set the boundaries).

Do you not know what they did?

I’m interested to know what you mean by “working the system.”

Remember when Ffyona Campbell said she was going to walk around the world at the Live Aid concert. Well she did. But she did miss part of it out. From memory she found herself pregnant and had an abortion and because she was recovering travelled for part of it in a vehicle. ( I did a lot of walking back then and loved reading her book about it).The deceit haunted her so much that she went back and re did that part of the walk, even though it hadn’t been a great distance. She couldn’t live with the lie. I don’t think that Raynor Winn feels any sort of remorse. I don’t usually feel this sort of way about such things but this deceit has really annoyed me. Maybe it’s because the coastal path in Cornwall is so precious to me.